Articles from Vol. 10, No. 1, January

ABSTRACT The Enron disaster prompted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 with new auditor independence rules, creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, corporate governance and certification requirements, whistleblower protections, extended...

ABSTRACT Recent corporate scandals have led to calls for improved instruction in ethics in colleges of business. The leading accrediting body for business programs, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has also recently...

ABSTRACT State governments employ millions of people, and provide services to millions of Americans as well, some of which are of a governmental nature, but many of which are similar to those offered by the private sector. While the employment practices...

ABSTRACT President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) into law on July 30, 2002. At that time he said that it brought about "the most far-reaching reforms of American business practices since the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt". The SOA...

ABSTRACT The U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion in the eminent domain case of Kelo v. City of New London is one that elicited public outrage, abundant commentary, and wide-spread condemnation--pun intended. In a passionate dissent, Justice Sandra...

ABSTRACT Developments in biotechnology raise a myriad of issues relating to intellectual property law and ethics. Intellectual property law and specifically patent law, has been forced to create guidelines for patenting living matter. Patent law...

ABSTRACT With the recent onslaught of accounting frauds, the nature of unethical decision making in organizations has shifted from the lack of sensitivity for the ethical aspects of decisions to one where executives have used their positional power...

ABSTRACT For most non-union employers, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is probably not the federal statute that has drawn a great deal of attention in recent years. Given the steady decline in union membership, density, and the number of...